Word: bret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRET HARTE by Richard O'Connor. 331 pages. Little, Brown...
...Bret Hanover: the $151,252 Messenger Stakes; at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Backed down by the bettors to odds of 1-5, the three-year-old-bay colt took the lead at the start and stayed there, beating Tuxedo Hanover by half a length to sew up the Triple Crown for pacers (he had already won the Cane Futurity and Little Brown Jug) and record his 45th victory in 48 races...
...Bret Hanover: the $70,000 Little Brown Jug, harness racing's best-known contest for pacers; at Delaware, Ohio. Winner of 42 out of 45 starts and $420,403, the three-year-old colt won the first one-mile heat by 3¼ lengths in 1 min. 57 sec.-a new world record for a ½-mile track-took the second heat...
...Bret Hanover: the Hanover-Hempt Farms Stake in a new track record of 1 min. 57 ⅓ sec.; at The Meadows in Washington, Pa. With Driver-Trainer Frank Ervin in the sulky, the unbeaten three-year-old pacer swelled his 1965 earnings by $8,700 to $118,700, stretched his sensational winning streak to 29 races...
Four times last year, Bret broke the magic 2-min. mark for the mile. He won 24 races and $173,298, became the first two-year-old ever voted Harness Horse of the Year. Owner Downing recently turned down an offer of $850,000 for Bret. "If I took the money," he explained, "I might blow it all on some silly mining stock. Then where would I be?" As it is, the pickings are nothing to complain about. Bret's victory in the Matron Stake was worth $10,717, bringing his winnings so far this year...